Because one of my eyes is completely blind.
Anyway, since the 2D version of Avatar was shown at an inconvenient time I went to a 3D viewing with my friend. The goggles help keep the picture sane, but the image was still pretty blurry which was annoying. I know I'll go to movies less often if they insist on doing 3D versions for everything.
You slack off when your supposed to be working and schmooze up to people to make them feel important. Who wouldn't want you as their stooge?!
That's pretty harsh critique based on a short post, I'd say. At no point I ever smooched up to anyone. I hung out with people, had fun times and made friends, simple as that. It's true that they are useful when you're trying to get a job, but you're pretty fucking cynical if you assume that's the reason I spent my time with other people. Please try to remember the context of the posting (ie. how to get your first job).
As for slacking. I work as a programmer, get good reviews from my boss (who I didn't know before I got the job) and enjoy my work. I guess I would have been fired for incompetence before trial period was over if I was just slacking off, right? Grades aren't everything.
Of course not. But it helps to get your foot in for the first references for real world. It's not nepotism, because I wasn't getting hired because I knew those who hired me, as I didn't. I still had to show my grades and I still had to learn the prerequisite skills for the job and convince the HR people of my competence.
The edge I got for these jobs against rivals who had no real work references either was I had many people vouching for me. This evens the odds helluva lot. Typically good employees vouch for good employees they can stand to be around, right?
if you don't have any previous work history in a field. I'll freely admit I got both of my IT jobs by referrals from friends and acquaintances already working in the companies.
University/College studies are as much about networking as they are about learning. I spent most of my years in University in our student relaxing room playing boardgames and arguing with fellow students and faculty members. Now people who graduated years before me and have achieved higher positions in companies know me or are my friends and have a good understanding on how I fit in teams/groups. And since we mostly argued about our studies at hand they know that even though my grades weren't top notch I knew my stuff.
Of course this doesn't work at all if you're an asshole. You have to stand out somehow, but red flagging yourself for good by suing your school for your own failures is about the worst thing you could possibly do.
I find it more than a little amusing that summary mentions waterfall method being a time honed, excellent example of how all software should be made.
Here's the history of the none existent waterfall method has to say about it.. Waterfall Method does not exist!
Just get a fucking hobby. I went from 97kg to 107kg in my first year of IT work. Got fed up with being a fat ass last year, started eating low carb food and added exercise to my hobby list. Now I'm 85kg and spend a few nights at our gym doing bjj.
Don't make excuses, I've got a 7 month old kid and I still manage to get some training time without any inhuman efforts or harming my relationship with my family. Just do it, you lazy bum.
Well, actually since TPB is acting very much like a common carrier it's up to the users to decide what they will download. Nobody is forcing anyone to use TPB. Heck, some of those who downloaded it out of curiosity (availability, visibility factors come into play here) might actually buy the game afterwards out of support.
I'm not saying this is a sound business model. People are dicks that want everything free and for the most part are morally flexible enough to pirate whatever they want to without feeling any kind of remorse. But some folks actually want to give back too when they find out something that really intrigue and/or entertain them, so it's not all lose-lose when a small, mostly unknown product ends up in a system (or service) like TPB.
The common language in medium/large IT & Tech firms is English. The language barrier won't hamper you a bit when it comes to work. And since almost all of those companies are in big cities where almost everyone under 40 has a good grasp of English you should have no trouble at all.
Besides Swedish is very close to English, just mixed with Germanic influences. It shouldn't be that hard for you to actually get the basics if you're really interested.
The video titled "Jokela High School Massacre 11/7" was actually uploaded on the 6th, not two weeks before. Old media guys are illiterate when it comes to new media, it seems. (He joined YouTube with the new account two weeks ago)
I live in Finland and frankly I do not know anyone younger than 55 that has a landline phone subscription. These days the only thing connected to the wall is either ADSL (you do not need a landline subscription for that here) or RJ-45 (in the newer apartment buildings etc.) Heck, neither of my parents have a landline. These days only old people and businesses have them.
Back in my student days I got a 10/10Mbit connection from Sonera, which was in _heavy_ use. I did over 150GB in several months but got no complaints from it at all. Nowadays I have 2/2Mbit connection from the same firm and have done vastly more than 50GB on several months. No limits and no problems. Guess the Finnish ISPs are doing at least something right:)
Actually, the money didn't go to the artists only because RIAA/MPAA/IPFI-affiliates would not them register to the Russian counterpart. Mainly because their rules state something along "we retain all rights to license your stuff from now on", but still. It was _not_ an unlawful operation.
And better yet, you could ask yourself _why_ they demanded closing the shop instead of trying to change the policies of the Russian copyright association or put up a competing "more lawful" operation themselves? Using WTO negotiations to shut down one company that operates by it's local laws but pisses you off otherwise (remember, it's the copyright association's rules that were the main problem here) is pure evil.
You are missing the point. People created stuff before the copyright and they'll do so after it too. I'm guessing almost all the art created by people who only want to be rich is crap that doesn't give anything to anyone and we as a society would possibly be better off it.
I don't really get all this greed. Yeah, you should be paid for your job and creations one way or another. Again and again from a song released 50 years ago? Or your granddad's creations? That's just insane. It's not like you are being ripped off. If you haven't made anything else worth money in the last 50 fucking years you should have gone to school somewhere along the road. It's not like this came onto them all of the sudden.
This month our legislators passed a law that allows secret blacklists to ISPs. This is of course "voluntary". This was passed using the all-powerful child porn veto that allows any stupid law to be passed without any opposition. Swedes have this too, and not surprisingly the copyright mafia (IFPI-affiliates) have been requesting to use the lists to blacklist piracy sites and anything else that infringes their copyright. And why not, since the technique is already there, eh?
A finnish guy filmed two mall guards beating up a man and posted in on YouTube. The press got a whiff of it and now one of them was suspended, the other one fired and there's an ongoing criminal investigation. Yay for YouTube.
A link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsUA-qEzy0
1) Buy an insanely restrictive and abusive copyright law in region A 2) Demand synchronization of copyright law of region A to the rest of the world for simpler interpretion since pirates are everywhere. 3) $$$ 4) Goto 1)
Since it takes time to synchronize these laws internationally it's like slowly boiling a frog.
You might be interested to know that in other parts of the world it actually might be legal to take a few copies of a CD and pass them on to a friend. So, while in the US this copy-restriction might be lawful it is actually effectively denying lawful actions elsewhere in the world.
Oh, I forgot. Your laws are the only ones that matter these days.
who did >105 study weeks (one study week = 40 hours of work) in a year. He did maths and CS and mainly just attended the exams. That was 6-7 years ago.. He still hasn't graduated (that means he hasn't done his thesis back here in Finland):-)
Where is Betrayal at Krondor? It's possibly the greatest RPG ever made. At least it defined the genre again after all of those D&D-"goldenbox"-games.. The article lags too much to read, but there aren't any mentions even here. Shame on you..
Have they ever catched someone really dangerous with this? What's the ratio? 10M searches per lunatic?
Of course when you are talking about the US there are bound to be gun nuts trying to take their precious weapons in with them.;) Still, that doesn't mean that most of the gun nuts are trying to hijack the plane.
What's interesting to me is *why* it's true, because I've found that most people are quite honest. They wouldn't dream of stealing a CD from a store, so why would they create an infringing copy of the same content?
Because it's actually leagal in many countries? In some countries you have to pay extra for empty medias because people tend to copy copyrighted works on them. So, to justify this (since in a democracy a law is void if the majority of the population breaks it, right?) the copyright law explicitly allows a few copies from a leagal item to your friends and family be it yours or from the library.
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Because one of my eyes is completely blind. Anyway, since the 2D version of Avatar was shown at an inconvenient time I went to a 3D viewing with my friend. The goggles help keep the picture sane, but the image was still pretty blurry which was annoying. I know I'll go to movies less often if they insist on doing 3D versions for everything.
You slack off when your supposed to be working and schmooze up to people to make them feel important. Who wouldn't want you as their stooge?!
That's pretty harsh critique based on a short post, I'd say. At no point I ever smooched up to anyone. I hung out with people, had fun times and made friends, simple as that. It's true that they are useful when you're trying to get a job, but you're pretty fucking cynical if you assume that's the reason I spent my time with other people. Please try to remember the context of the posting (ie. how to get your first job).
As for slacking. I work as a programmer, get good reviews from my boss (who I didn't know before I got the job) and enjoy my work. I guess I would have been fired for incompetence before trial period was over if I was just slacking off, right? Grades aren't everything.
Of course not. But it helps to get your foot in for the first references for real world. It's not nepotism, because I wasn't getting hired because I knew those who hired me, as I didn't. I still had to show my grades and I still had to learn the prerequisite skills for the job and convince the HR people of my competence. The edge I got for these jobs against rivals who had no real work references either was I had many people vouching for me. This evens the odds helluva lot. Typically good employees vouch for good employees they can stand to be around, right?
if you don't have any previous work history in a field. I'll freely admit I got both of my IT jobs by referrals from friends and acquaintances already working in the companies.
University/College studies are as much about networking as they are about learning. I spent most of my years in University in our student relaxing room playing boardgames and arguing with fellow students and faculty members. Now people who graduated years before me and have achieved higher positions in companies know me or are my friends and have a good understanding on how I fit in teams/groups. And since we mostly argued about our studies at hand they know that even though my grades weren't top notch I knew my stuff.
Of course this doesn't work at all if you're an asshole. You have to stand out somehow, but red flagging yourself for good by suing your school for your own failures is about the worst thing you could possibly do.
I find it more than a little amusing that summary mentions waterfall method being a time honed, excellent example of how all software should be made. Here's the history of the none existent waterfall method has to say about it.. Waterfall Method does not exist!
Just get a fucking hobby. I went from 97kg to 107kg in my first year of IT work. Got fed up with being a fat ass last year, started eating low carb food and added exercise to my hobby list. Now I'm 85kg and spend a few nights at our gym doing bjj. Don't make excuses, I've got a 7 month old kid and I still manage to get some training time without any inhuman efforts or harming my relationship with my family. Just do it, you lazy bum.
Well, actually since TPB is acting very much like a common carrier it's up to the users to decide what they will download. Nobody is forcing anyone to use TPB. Heck, some of those who downloaded it out of curiosity (availability, visibility factors come into play here) might actually buy the game afterwards out of support.
I'm not saying this is a sound business model. People are dicks that want everything free and for the most part are morally flexible enough to pirate whatever they want to without feeling any kind of remorse. But some folks actually want to give back too when they find out something that really intrigue and/or entertain them, so it's not all lose-lose when a small, mostly unknown product ends up in a system (or service) like TPB.
The common language in medium/large IT & Tech firms is English. The language barrier won't hamper you a bit when it comes to work. And since almost all of those companies are in big cities where almost everyone under 40 has a good grasp of English you should have no trouble at all.
Besides Swedish is very close to English, just mixed with Germanic influences. It shouldn't be that hard for you to actually get the basics if you're really interested.
If you feel like it, really, just go for it.
The video titled "Jokela High School Massacre 11/7" was actually uploaded on the 6th, not two weeks before. Old media guys are illiterate when it comes to new media, it seems. (He joined YouTube with the new account two weeks ago)
I've only seen with one eye my whole life, and still I can read. I guess my method differs then, eh? ;)
Although this might explain (to some degree) why I'm so damned slow at reading.
I live in Finland and frankly I do not know anyone younger than 55 that has a landline phone subscription. These days the only thing connected to the wall is either ADSL (you do not need a landline subscription for that here) or RJ-45 (in the newer apartment buildings etc.) Heck, neither of my parents have a landline. These days only old people and businesses have them.
Back in my student days I got a 10/10Mbit connection from Sonera, which was in _heavy_ use. I did over 150GB in several months but got no complaints from it at all. Nowadays I have 2/2Mbit connection from the same firm and have done vastly more than 50GB on several months. No limits and no problems. Guess the Finnish ISPs are doing at least something right :)
Actually, the money didn't go to the artists only because RIAA/MPAA/IPFI-affiliates would not them register to the Russian counterpart. Mainly because their rules state something along "we retain all rights to license your stuff from now on", but still. It was _not_ an unlawful operation.
And better yet, you could ask yourself _why_ they demanded closing the shop instead of trying to change the policies of the Russian copyright association or put up a competing "more lawful" operation themselves? Using WTO negotiations to shut down one company that operates by it's local laws but pisses you off otherwise (remember, it's the copyright association's rules that were the main problem here) is pure evil.
You are missing the point. People created stuff before the copyright and they'll do so after it too. I'm guessing almost all the art created by people who only want to be rich is crap that doesn't give anything to anyone and we as a society would possibly be better off it.
I don't really get all this greed. Yeah, you should be paid for your job and creations one way or another. Again and again from a song released 50 years ago? Or your granddad's creations? That's just insane. It's not like you are being ripped off. If you haven't made anything else worth money in the last 50 fucking years you should have gone to school somewhere along the road. It's not like this came onto them all of the sudden.
This month our legislators passed a law that allows secret blacklists to ISPs. This is of course "voluntary". This was passed using the all-powerful child porn veto that allows any stupid law to be passed without any opposition. Swedes have this too, and not surprisingly the copyright mafia (IFPI-affiliates) have been requesting to use the lists to blacklist piracy sites and anything else that infringes their copyright. And why not, since the technique is already there, eh?
Talk about a slippery slope..
A finnish guy filmed two mall guards beating up a man and posted in on YouTube. The press got a whiff of it and now one of them was suspended, the other one fired and there's an ongoing criminal investigation. Yay for YouTube. A link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsUA-qEzy0
1) Buy an insanely restrictive and abusive copyright law in region A
2) Demand synchronization of copyright law of region A to the rest of the world for simpler interpretion since pirates are everywhere.
3) $$$
4) Goto 1)
Since it takes time to synchronize these laws internationally it's like slowly boiling a frog.
You might be interested to know that in other parts of the world it actually might be legal to take a few copies of a CD and pass them on to a friend. So, while in the US this copy-restriction might be lawful it is actually effectively denying lawful actions elsewhere in the world.
Oh, I forgot. Your laws are the only ones that matter these days.
who did >105 study weeks (one study week = 40 hours of work) in a year. He did maths and CS and mainly just attended the exams. That was 6-7 years ago.. He still hasn't graduated (that means he hasn't done his thesis back here in Finland) :-)
Where is Betrayal at Krondor? It's possibly the greatest RPG ever made. At least it defined the genre again after all of those D&D-"goldenbox"-games.. The article lags too much to read, but there aren't any mentions even here. Shame on you..
Have they ever catched someone really dangerous with this? What's the ratio? 10M searches per lunatic?
;)
Of course when you are talking about the US there are bound to be gun nuts trying to take their precious weapons in with them.
Still, that doesn't mean that most of the gun nuts are trying to hijack the plane.
What's interesting to me is *why* it's true, because I've found that most people are quite honest. They wouldn't dream of stealing a CD from a store, so why would they create an infringing copy of the same content?
Because it's actually leagal in many countries? In some countries you have to pay extra for empty medias because people tend to copy copyrighted works on them. So, to justify this (since in a democracy a law is void if the majority of the population breaks it, right?) the copyright law explicitly allows a few copies from a leagal item to your friends and family be it yours or from the library.
I'd love to see the source for your numbers.
Maybe they are just very happy rapists? After all, you are throwing voluntarily your daughters at them :-)